Rated 5 out of 5 by Bruce from Works as advertisedIf you run this on a dedicated gigabit network it works exactly as advertised. I would not add these devices to an existing network and expect them to work correctly. Although the video is compressed if you're expecting to stream 1080p it obviously is going to require bandwidth. We used CAT5 cabling and gigabit network switches. We are running 6 Matrox Maevex Encoders and 15 decoders on a dedicated AV network.